Behavioral Finance: A Novel Approach presents original papers exploring fresh ideas in behavioral finance. Its chapters span a wide range of topics in a distinct mix of traditional issues along with less conventional matters. This blend creates an optimal balance between chapters aiming at widening the scope of research in behavioral finance and those striving to refine the extant knowledge.Thus, along with traditional topics such as biases in pension decisions, analysts recommendation, gender differences in decisions and IPO's underpricing, the book also contains chapters on CEO and board members behavior, biased responses to regulation and regulatory reform, investors' attitudes towards corporate governance, cognitive biases in judicial decisions, the relations between behavioral finance and religion, new methods to calibrate the accuracy of forecasts, and the relations between behavioral finance and optimal contracting.Presenting original findings on a vast assortment of subjects, all in one venue, makes the book ideal as a reference book for researchers and practitioners interested in keeping up with the important developments in behavioral finance. The book could also serve as a handy guide for adapting insights from popular behavioral finance to some important underrepresented issues.

About the Author
Itzhak Venezia is a Professor of Finance at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, the Chairman of the MBA program and of the Finance Area for the MBA studies. He holds the Sanger Chair of Banking and Risk Management (emeritus) at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel where he taught prior to assuming his current position. Professor Venezia is the editor in chief of the Lecture Notes Series in Finance, and the editor of the books: Behavioral Finance: Where do Investors Biases Come From? And of Behavioral Finance: The Coming of Age. He also authored the book Lecture Notes in Behavioral Finance. Itzhak has published numerous papers in leading journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Banking and Finance, Management Science, and is the joint editor of the book: Bridging the GAAP: Recent Advances in Accounting and Finance. He taught as a visiting professor at Yale University, The University of California, Los Angeles, Rutgers University, and Northwestern University. Professor Venezia's research currently concentrates on Behavioral Finance, where he contributes profoundly to the better understanding of the disposition effect, herding, the differences in biases between amateurs and professionals, and other issues. Itzhak holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.


Book Information
ISBN 9789811229244
Author Itzhak Venezia
Format Hardback
Page Count 388
Imprint World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Publisher World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd